craigmurray.co.uk is no more. When Alisher Usmanov set Schillings on to me for daring to publish the truth about his past as a convicted racketeer and blackmailer, he caused my webhosts to pull the plug. Happily, after a very few days the blog returned hosted outside the UK, with a new domain name – craigmurray.org.uk instead of the craigmurray.co.uk used the previous three years.

Richard, Wibbler, Tim, Jeroen and Andrew between them did something brilliant so all the previous co.uk entres were copied to org.uk, and if you entered an old craigmurray.co.uk url, you got instantly redirected.

But sadly this no longer works. craigmurray.co.uk has now disappeared completely. It was hosted by Lycos, which went out of business, and we could not rescue it because nobody remembered any of the usernames, passwords or credit card details used when it was set up five years ago for the Blackburn election.

The content still exists safely on org.uk, but literally thousands of links around the net to craigmurray.co.uk addresses no longer work. This includes those to the Murder in Samarkand leaked FCO documents, and the urls printed in the books. The loss of many thousand old links has also of course led to a slump in various rankings on the blog – including a spectacular fall on Wikio which actually measures craigmurray.co.uk and not craigmurray.org.uk.

Anyone who has a site with a search and replace facility, if you could replace craigmurray.co.uk with craigmurray.org.uk that would be very helpful (if you have the ability to do it when it forms a part of an url).

Anyway, that’s the boring housekeeping announcement. My internet connection went down in Accra before I left, so some postings promised earlier were delayed but I hope to do them later today.

On arrival back in London I found that I had no court papers delivered from the Qulliam Foundation. So they join pathetic worms Jack Straw, Tim Spicer and Alisher Usmanov in the list of those who set lawyers on me to try to bully away the truth, but lacked the guts to go to court (though of course Usmanov has no lack of gut).

18 thoughts on “The Sad Death of craigmurray.co.uk”

craigmurray.co.uk belongs to you. It is your property, and you should definitely be able to get it back. It expires on 19-Feb-2011. It shouldn’t matter that you cannot remember the details of usernames, passwords or credit card. In fact such information is irrelevant as your service provider went out of business. You should contact Nominet and explain the circumstances before it expires. Once it has expired someone else in theory could grab it.

My son should have a better idea about this but he is asleep.

Nice photo. You look 10 years younger. I didn’t realise you had known her that long!!!

Tony

“Nominet dispute resolution procedure

Nominet will order the transfer of .uk domain names provided you can show that you have a right (whether or not registered trade mark rights) in the name which is identical or similar to the domain name and that the registrant’s registration is an ‘abusive registration’.”

who is info

Registrant:

craig murray

Registrant type:

UK Individual

Registrant’s address:

The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their

The domain is registered in your name, Craig. Though the address is withheld from the WHOIS service, if you have given them your real address then the domain is yours, by right, password or no password. I can’t believe there is no way for you to resolve this with the registrar somehow. Maybe ask them to send out new login details by snail mail to your registered address? The domain is legally yours until 19-Feb-2011, at which point you could always buy it anew anyway.

The weird thing is there is no registrar listed in the WHOIS listing. I’m not sure why that is?

The registrar and the host are not necessarily the same. Did you register it with Lycos? If so there should be a higher registering authority you can now go to.

Once you regain control over the domain you can redirect requests any way you please by configuring the server on your new host.

I remain unconvinced that you can’t take back control of the domain, unless maybe it is registered to a made up address. That would be a bit of an oopsie!

This may involve a paying an administrative fee (11.50) Once you have done this you can transfer it to another hosting company, for example S2CONSULTING who currently manage the registration of craigmurray.org.uk

I’m happy to help you will this – just drop me an email, or get your technical guy to drop me an email.

I know what losing traction is like. I lost a WordPress blog ranked 207 on Technorati 2 years ago. If it hadn’t been for online contacts blogrolling me I likely would have functionally vanished. Yet this past summer I did on their rankings after a transition that blew my rank of 26…down to 1.

Please take up the offers of help to regain control of craigmurray.co.uk. As pointed out, the domain is registered to you and it should be quite possible to have it pointed to a new DNS provider, with some paperwork via nominet.

If so I would like her to take a photograph of my Wife and I ( I think she may be related to her )

We were both completely elated to be asked…

We thought why is he asking us?

He is top of his class in Physics and Maths – and is trying to decide between Oxford and Cambridge

I know he fancies our daughter like crazy – but she is a few months older and already at University – and he wouldn’t dare ask her for the risk that she would say no..He hasn’t got close enough yet to ask her…

You mentioned a few days ago that you were trained historian. I was wondering what your reaction was to Obama defining the revolt in the American colonies, which led to the formation of the United States, as; a union formed as a reaction to oppression. I was waiting for an outcry from British historians pointing out that this “cartoon” version of the background to the revolt, is highly tendentious, but, what do we get – silence, why is that?

I mean British people aren’t usually so passive when foreigners make comments about British history, yet we’ve somehow come to almost accept the American, partisan, perspective, as the “true” version of why the colonies, or elements within colonial society, rose up against the crown. Isn’t this odd?

Gee perhaps a link from coia.org.uk will help your SEO. Our site is wow, nearly five years old now, and still enjoys plenty of page views despite waiting for the ‘all clear’ from the Charity Commission.!